profdc9
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- Comment on Does AAAA just mean awful triple A games now? 2 months ago:
It means that the key is stuck.
- Comment on Hearts 3 months ago:
The Jewish heart doesn’t have enough arterial plaque from the brisket, the kishka, the schmaltz…
- Comment on Burninate 3 months ago:
You have great consummate V’s!
- Comment on If you had a drain that you knew was clogged only with hair, could you unclog the drain only using Nair? 4 months ago:
I made myself a 3-D printed drain cover
github.com/profdc9/…/Sink-Drain
And it traps the hair and I don’t have problems with clogging. It’s a parametric part so it can be adjusted for most drain sizes.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 4 months ago:
In my house in North Carolina, I put up radiant barrier foil in the attic. It was cheap and made a huge difference in the upstairs temperature. I stapled it to the joysts so there was an air gap on both sides of the foil, and so that the hot air would rise out of the roof vents.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 4 months ago:
I had a nice pergola at another house I grew grape vines on. I sure do miss it.
- Comment on Mind blown! 4 months ago:
Like this guy: ?
- Comment on Nihilist would give him one star 4 months ago:
Maybe it was just coincidence that the patient survived when Dr. Lewis intervened. Correlation is not causation, after all.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 4 months ago:
Quantum states are incredibly fragile and can be disturbed with even the slightest interaction with the environment (called decoherence). These devices are cooled and isolated to the most extreme degrees possible and still at present decoherence severely limits the computations that can be performed.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 4 months ago:
A quantum computer using current technologies can’t scale to that size. Enormous advances over what is now currently possible would be required to get it to that number of qubits, and then the whole issue of cooling can be revisited.
- Comment on Air Friar 4 months ago:
Soon to be the first Greased Priest.
- Comment on This is not a record to be proud of. 5 months ago:
Just remember, when it comes to baby Jesus, if you’re not first, you’re last.
- Comment on This is not a record to be proud of. 5 months ago:
Ricky Bobby approves.
- Comment on Solving CAPTCHA for 'Bicycle' -- Include Rider? 5 months ago:
CAPTCHAs are solved by consensus. Whatever the CAPTCHA thinks a bicycle is depends on what people before it selected. Sometimes it doesn’t know and just uses your answer to set up future CAPTCHAs. So you should be thinking: what would other people (or bots) select for the CAPTCHA.
- Comment on Language 6 months ago:
I think free will is an illusion that a brain creates to aid in human perception. This illusion is an evolutionary adaptation so that a human acts to preserve its body and its genes by perceiving its person as distinct from other persons and the environment.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 6 months ago:
It’s a big improvement from making them from straw.
- Comment on I knew it 7 months ago:
Are the Dutch the same as the lizard people? Because if not, I don’t get what this is saying.
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 7 months ago:
I am 50 years old. I thought by becoming a research engineer I could improve the world like others before me who created things like radio, indoor plumbing, and textile factories. I published over a hundred research papers, but I learned that no one reads research papers anymore, and publication has become a complete waste of time. I learned that politics and money trump engineering considerations 100% of the time, and that the sole purpose of technology now seems to draw money from investors’ wallets. I wanted to be a great teacher, but engineers are not paid to do that because it doesn’t make money, so now I just make open source projects that I hope can be used to be examples to learn from. But I don’t think I’ll be remembered, as it seems technology nowadays is largely used as a means of swindling people out of their money so they can buy stuff they don’t need and makes them miserable.
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 7 months ago:
It could be worse. Think of spending your years on a futile effort, one which you sacrificed your youth and health to try to achieve, and having to look back on that.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 7 months ago:
Don’t worry, none of this will matter after the heat death of the universe.
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- Comment on You jaded pessimists 7 months ago:
It’s not stupid. Perpetual despondence can kill you as surely as a bullet.
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 8 months ago:
What operating system defines you as a person?
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
A blockchain can provide an irrevocable record, and it can provide a mechanism for uncooperating parties to agree that the record should be created. This is usually used for financial transactions involving coins of dubious value, but it can also be used for recording transactions of real world assets as long as those transactions can be faithfully linked to the event on the blockchain. Therefore the blockchain doesn’t really prove that a transaction is fraudulent or not, all it proves is that a sufficient number of parties believe it is not.
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- Comment on But isn't it dead too? 8 months ago:
This is survivor bias in action.
- Comment on Fake news, fake penis... 9 months ago:
Think of the children!
- Comment on Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they've seen 'the legacy of broken promises' in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says 9 months ago:
You’re not even number two.
- Comment on A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? 9 months ago:
Hey, I wanna sell Alphabet stock. Make the balance sheet look good so I can unload!
- Comment on Merry ChristmaX 10 months ago:
Please don’t show us what a Wii would look like.
